Reserve Run farm × quarter barrel brewery + Pub

Quarter Barrel Brewery + Pub opened in October 2010 just slightly off of the beaten path in uptown Oxford. Since then, we have been serving quality interpretations of classic dishes and new, innovative beers to Miami students, their parents, and our home town. Now Quarter Barrel has landed a premiere location in Hamilton, and the oldest brewpub in Butler County will take its place in the county seat.

Located at Main and B streets, QB Hamilton is located in a re-purposed goods store that has overlooked its corner by the Main Street bridge for over a century. The multi-level restaurant offers the choice to observe passers-by in the glass-wrapped microbrewery on the 1st floor, or watch the art of cooking from the chef's dining table in the upstairs kitchen. Weather permitting, a rooftop patio offers all of the same service with views of downtown, the Great Miami River, and the Spooky Nook Sports Complex at Champion Mills.

Beer Gallery

Please note that this is a comprehensive list and some selections are not always available.

Seasonals

Brune

Autumn. Biere de Garde brewed with dark kilned and wheat malts, and chaptalized with turbinado. Think of this beer as Hollower Earth, as it uses exactly the same malt bill as Quarter Barrel Hollow Earth but is brewed to a shallower volume resulting in heavier gravity. 8%, 30 IBUs

Gelfling

Spring. American Wheat Ale brewed with lemongrass. 5%, 20 IBUs

Hot Corner

Summer. Hot Corner is a Cream Ale, which is basically a pre-prohibition adjunct lager that uses an ale yeast and, get ready... absolutely no cream. It's just barley, corn, and sugar. Who knows why things get marketed the way they do. We can tell you why we market our cream ale as Hot Corner, though. Besides a nod to our Hamilton location, at least one person here obviously loves baseball, and this is a beer with enough whiplash grace to hold down an infield power position. 5.3%, 16 IBUs

Walt Vanderbush's Mojo Rye Zen

Winter. Imperial Rye India Pale Ale. 7.5%, 70 IBUs

Pretentious Foreign Language Names

Consigliere

American Pale Ale. 5.8%, 38 IBUs

Sestina

A Sestina is a poetic form known for its repetition of end words. It consists of six stanzas of six lines followed by a stanza of three lines. It is unrhymed and the end words follow a “backward crossing” pattern. There is a lot going on there. Likewise, our harvest ale involves a lot of line crossing, from incorporating rye, oats, and barley to the American hops and the Belgian yeast. Belgian Rye IPA. Bronze in 2016 U.S. Open Beer Championship in the Out of Bounds IPA category. 6.2%, 45 IBUs

Bohemia is the westernmost historical region in the Czech Republic, and home to the first pale lager. Our Bohemian Pils balances noble hop aroma and flavor with a malty, slightly sweet body. The overall effort is one of balance, hence the undistracting name. 5.4%, 33 IBUs

Guilty by Association

James Bielo's Quick Wit

Witbier. 5.5%, 14 IBUs

Walt Vanderbush's Mojo Rye Zen

Rye IPA. 7.5%, 70 IBUs

(Nathan) French Quarter

The American cousin to Quarter Barrel Chapeau Gris, this Belgian IPA features the same spicy yeast as our classic grisette, but couples that profile with the woody, citrusy flavors of new world hops. The Belgian IPA is a category still under development, after only being commercially realized in the early 2000's. 7%, 56 IBUs

Curious Bestiary

Unicorn Feathers

There are so many breweries these days that finding an unused name for your beer is increasingly difficult. Unicorn Feathers is so named because it was the last unused word pairing in English. It uses Brettanomyces, a yeast typical of barrel aged beers, instead of Saccharomyces, a typical brewer's yeast, as the primary fermenting agent. This gives Unicorn Feathers a funky, fruity flavor profile with hints of passion-fruit and lemon. 6.6%, 16 IBUs

Electric Sheep

Amber, Mixed Fermentation. 6.5%, 19 IBUs

Machine Elves

This mixed fermentation uses both Saccharomyces and Brettanomyces strains. This American-Wild Ale, similar to gueze, lambic, and oud bruin, is a dark fruity sour with balanced acidity and can appeal to wine lovers and beer connoisseurs alike. 6%, 20 IBUs

And the Rest

Baphomet

Belgian Golden Strong. 10%, 30 IBUs

Dirt Nap

American Stout. 6.5%, 40 IBUs

Potter's Field

Brewed with wheat malt, black barley, chocolate wheat, and crystal malt, our American Porter offers a creamy mouthfeel with notes of coffee and chocolate. The namesake, a source for potter's clay, offers an earthen analog to those layers upon layers, while the color, a rich black, nods towards filling the ground back up. 6%, 36 IBUs

Hollow Earth

Hollow Earth borrows from the traditions and flavor palates of bieres de garde, an historic and hodge-podge style, and features a nose akin to grapes and subtle flavors of dark fruits. Like some wines, it is chaptalized to lighten the body for a crisp finish despite the considerable complexity of the malt. 6.7% ABV, 22 IBUs

Manchurian Candidate

Red IPA. 207 IBUs. 104 IBUs. 57 international bittering units who are nevertheless shaping the flavor profile of this beer. This Red IPA is a throwback to when a red scare meant you could find yourself without control of your mind. Now the silos doing the most work on our psyches aren't missile housings but the ones we wall ourselves in on social media platforms. Fortunately there's beer, helping humanity to transcend social barriers for over two millennia. 6.5%

Three Legged Elvis

A showcase for the Achouffe yeast strain, this pale Belgian balances fruity esters and phenols with a toasty malt base and German hops for a dry, refreshing finish. Elvis is our neighbor's cat who, notably, possesses only three legs. In addition to serving as the eponym of our beer, he one time almost caught a squirrel. Silver, 2018 US Open Beer Championship, French and Belgian Ale. 6.3%, 25 IBUs

No Quarter IPA

Brewed with Golden Promise malt for a sweet malt base and paired with a piney, tropical hop bill, this IPA is smooth across the middle palate but leaves a lingering register of bitterness. Also, it shares the name of debatably the third or fourth best song on Houses of the Holy. Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, whose name sounds like a pirate, set the song to a scene featuring a cloaked horseman roaming graveyards in 1976's The Song Remains the Same concert motion picture. It was probably cool at the time, but, you know, it was a different era. We, of course, use it for the obvious "win or die" pun, thus completing the popular conceit that the flagship IPA contain some part of the overall brewery's name. 7.2% ABV, 50 IBUs